Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS

[Perry E. Metzger]

I think it's a serious mistake for emacs to try to pretend it can fix
the problem of a hung hard NFS mount for people. This belongs at the
OS layer, not at the level of emacs, and if someone wants the
semantics of soft mounts, they should use soft mounts. Emacs
shouldn't be in the business of special casing this, and indeed, on
many OSes where a hard mount will hang a process in an unkillable
kernel wait, it _can't_ fix it.

Perry
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